WASHINGTON — No one can sue the government over secret surveillance because, since it's secret, no one can prove his or her calls were intercepted, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, throwing out a constitutional challenge to the government's monitoring of international calls and emails.

The 5-4 decision is the latest of many that has shielded the government's anti-terrorism programs from court challenge, and a striking example of what civil libertarians call the Catch 22 rule that blocks challengers from collecting the evidence they need to proceed.

Over the past decade, the justices or lower court judges have repeatedly killed or quietly ended lawsuits that sought to expose or contest anti-terrorism programs, including secret wiretapping, round-up arrests of immigrants from the Mideast and drone strikes that killed American citizens abroad.

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